Software engineer, founder, product builder

Robert Seares

I build companies, software, and systems.

I am a software engineer, engineering leader, founder, and product builder currently living in Brazil with my wife and two children. Over the last decade I have worked across startups, AI, biotech, consumer products, infrastructure, and automation, always gravitating toward difficult technical problems where software can create outsized leverage.

Today

Engineering at Ark Biotech

Today I lead software engineering at Ark Biotech, where I help build the infrastructure, applications, simulation tooling, and AI systems powering next-generation biomanufacturing.

My work spans cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, simulation systems, machine learning applications, frontend architecture, backend services, and engineering leadership.

The question

How do we make it dramatically easier for people to build useful things?

That question has led me through projects ranging from AI systems and developer platforms to restaurant software, biotechnology infrastructure, and autonomous agents.

What I do

Systems that scale from idea to business

I enjoy building systems that can scale from a single user to thousands, and from a proof of concept to a business. My preferred stack is Python, TypeScript, Kubernetes, FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, cloud-native infrastructure, and AI-powered workflows.

Artificial IntelligenceCloud InfrastructureDistributed SystemsDeveloper PlatformsProduct EngineeringStartup OperationsAutomationTechnical Leadership

Philosophy

Software should create leverage.

The best technology removes complexity rather than adding it. Great systems are understandable, maintainable, and useful. Great companies solve real problems. Great engineers ship.

  • Ownership over bureaucracy
  • Speed over perfection
  • Simplicity over complexity
  • Learning over ego
  • Execution over presentations

Building

A laptop, an idea, and enough persistence.

Outside of my day job, I spend most of my time building. I have launched products in AI, SaaS, developer tooling, restaurant technology, and automation. Some succeeded, some failed, and all of them taught me something valuable.

What keeps me motivated is the same thing that motivated me when I started writing software: the ability to create something from nothing.

Life

Countryside of Sao Paulo, Brazil

When I am not building software, I am spending time with my family, exploring business ideas, studying technology, lifting weights, reading about startups, or working on the next project that probably should not exist but sounds too interesting not to build.

Current interests

Problems worth paying attention to

AI agents and autonomous systemsCloud-native platformsScientific computingBiotechnologyStartup strategyDeveloper experienceInfrastructure automationHuman-computer collaboration

Connect

If you are building something ambitious, I would love to hear about it.

I am always interested in talking with builders, founders, engineers, and people working on difficult problems.